That's not how civil service job hunting works. By various regulations based on law, you have exactly a right to know why they passed you over. Most of the process is automated right up to the point where the "hiring official" gets a list of candidates and decides how to proceed.
Hyperion Entertainment was founded in February 1999 after Belgian lawyer Benjamin Hermans wondered why no one had ever tried to license PC games to do Amiga ports.
Because very few people really want to play PC games on AmigaOS?
Sounds like Monster was butt-hurt when Uncle Sam ditched them, so they had a stooge write a sob story for Computer World.
Yes indeed. And, the Monster site was a serious piece of shit itself.
Here's the thing: Uncle Sam *just recently* took it back, we should EXPECT some bumps in the process. This is to be expected.
Most people here, not being gov employees probably haven't experienced what USA Jobs replaced. Essentially, each arm of the government had their own site for job seekers.
I can only tell you about about the Air Force site that Monster's USA Jobs replaced... The Air Force site was easy to navigate and easy to apply for jobs. Tracking your progress in the process was very straight forward.
Before I accepted my current Air Force position, I applied for perhaps a dozen different jobs, was called back for telephone interviews on perhaps half, and was able to track my progress with all - such as the reason for being passed over (important information for a job seeker).
The Monster experience was beyond convoluted to the point that I simply gave up trying to find and apply for jobs. Out of the 30 or 40 I applied for, I never got any call-backs, and it was impossible to track progress or determine reasons for for being passed over. It was just a huge waste of time.
Seriously folks, we all KNOW how Monster works. This "story" is just sour grapes from Monster for losing a fucking GRAVY TRAIN of a contract.
DISCLAIMER: I am a career Civil Servant with the Department of Defense.
OF COURSE the test build of Windows 8 runs wickedly quick. Can't you read? It's an early Developer Preview, it's not even a beta yet. They haven't packed it full of the standard train-load of unnecessary services, buggy features, assorted DRM layers, and other miscellaneous bling, crapware, and patented Microsoft Goodness. And by god when it ships, it better have touch-screen enabled by defaultâ¦
All I can say is Windows has gone straight downhill since Clippy and Bob registered their domestic partnership and retired to Venice Beach.
Is there any practical application to this sort of thing, either having the number itself, or whatever method this guy used to arrive at it? Or is this a thumb gazing exercise?
Am glad I am too poor to afford Verizon service any more...
And that brings up a good point: Isn't this part and parcel to being that "connected"?
I do not own a "smart phone", because those types of functions are not things I need on a phone. And so what? You want to be tied to your computer 24/7? There's a price to pay.
Solution:
Slow down, smell the coffee, buy a net book or tablet and understand that the Internet will be there when you get home / to work / to the coffee shop with the free wi-fi.
Give me a baseball bat and 5 minutes with any cocksucker that steals my shit, and he'll wish he didn't. Sure you might have my laptop, but I just knocked out all of your teeth and broke your legs. Fair trade.
Well, it's all good and well to pontificate. We'll see if Bradley Manning has the opportunity to get "compensation".
I am not a lawyer, and probably neither are you. I think it's a bit silly to be quoting popular isolated out of context bits and pieces of complex constitutional nuggets. The *reality* is that in the end, the government *will* prevail and if not, no one in particular will be punished, and folks like Manning will still spend many many years in prison for which there realliy is no adequate financial compensation.
Seriously, would YOU trade a few million (after the lawyers are done with it) for 20 or 30 years in prison? Even 10? If you think you would accept tha deal, you're no a sane person.
Be careful what you call "law". Unconstitutional legislation or action by the government is technically not "law", even though it looks and smells like one. Although it sometimes operates under the color of law until it eventually gets shut down.
Tell that to the guards while you cool your heels in the brig at Quantico.
At the time it had been once and it was assumed to be an accident. Now that it has happened again you have to wonder...
Indeed, at *most* twice.
People like to speculate, and the extreme secretiveness of Apple tends to let wild ideas like these grow.
But the facts are that there has never been any conclusive proof or even marginally believable solid evidence that either of these incidents are anything more than drunk yuppie Apple engineers in alcohol and cocaine induced stupors leaving their test phones places they shouldn't - bay area martini bars.
It's an extremely believable scenario verses the cloak-and-dagger pseudo-marketing being envisioned by the Apple Anti-Fanboys.
Sophos security researcher Graham Cluley questions how RSA has concluded that a country was responsible for the attack â" when RSA is unwilling to name who it suspects.
Why would they lay all their cards on the table? They don't need to prove to you and me that they know who did it, though the perps certainly now know that RSA knows they did it. I mean, that RSA is "unwilling" to tell Sophos does NOT mean that RSA has told no one.
And, RSA and Sophos have commercial interests and relationships in some of the same business markets, why would RSA tell them anything?
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but I wish the ruling were on the merits instead of being dismissed for lack of standing.
In this case, those *are* the merits.
More to the point, having a big ass nuke like this thing requires a big ass rocket to lift it.
The one in the picture has fins. I believe the delivery is done by bomber...
This guy Hugh Pickens, he's Roland Piquepaille back from the grave, right?
That's not how civil service job hunting works. By various regulations based on law, you have exactly a right to know why they passed you over. Most of the process is automated right up to the point where the "hiring official" gets a list of candidates and decides how to proceed.
Nobody will ever need more than 16GB...
From Wikipedia:
Hyperion Entertainment was founded in February 1999 after Belgian lawyer Benjamin Hermans wondered why no one had ever tried to license PC games to do Amiga ports.
Because very few people really want to play PC games on AmigaOS?
Sounds like Monster was butt-hurt when Uncle Sam ditched them, so they had a stooge write a sob story for Computer World.
Yes indeed. And, the Monster site was a serious piece of shit itself.
Here's the thing: Uncle Sam *just recently* took it back, we should EXPECT some bumps in the process. This is to be expected.
Most people here, not being gov employees probably haven't experienced what USA Jobs replaced. Essentially, each arm of the government had their own site for job seekers.
I can only tell you about about the Air Force site that Monster's USA Jobs replaced... The Air Force site was easy to navigate and easy to apply for jobs. Tracking your progress in the process was very straight forward.
Before I accepted my current Air Force position, I applied for perhaps a dozen different jobs, was called back for telephone interviews on perhaps half, and was able to track my progress with all - such as the reason for being passed over (important information for a job seeker).
The Monster experience was beyond convoluted to the point that I simply gave up trying to find and apply for jobs. Out of the 30 or 40 I applied for, I never got any call-backs, and it was impossible to track progress or determine reasons for for being passed over. It was just a huge waste of time.
Seriously folks, we all KNOW how Monster works. This "story" is just sour grapes from Monster for losing a fucking GRAVY TRAIN of a contract.
DISCLAIMER: I am a career Civil Servant with the Department of Defense.
In Soviet Russia, YOU are an idiot.
OF COURSE the test build of Windows 8 runs wickedly quick. Can't you read? It's an early Developer Preview, it's not even a beta yet. They haven't packed it full of the standard train-load of unnecessary services, buggy features, assorted DRM layers, and other miscellaneous bling, crapware, and patented Microsoft Goodness. And by god when it ships, it better have touch-screen enabled by defaultâ¦
All I can say is Windows has gone straight downhill since Clippy and Bob registered their domestic partnership and retired to Venice Beach.
So, essentially, this "story" is nothing more than I-Hate-Google-The-Sky-Is-Falling conspiracy speculation nonsense.
Is Slashdot pandering for page-views?
No, it's like a company making a decision about what to do with their product. One that is given away fro free, I might add.
It's also about a company being up front about the decision instead of leading you on for fear of hurting market share.
Quite right. And, rather than a "car analogy", I like to use the "Chihuahua analogy":
A lot of noise from a small but vocal minority who seem to think their needs transcend those of all others.
I like the tabs at the top. And I like "swell" UI design by UI specialists. But who am I...
By the way, my little Chihuahua friends, FireFox beckons you.
...neo-ludditism...
Fucking moron. A 20-something for sure.
I immediately went out and filed a patent on "noon". Sorry folks, we're first to file now... you snooze you lose.
Good for you, but I already copyrighted it.
I'm sorry, patents? This issue involves copyrights .
Anyway how would you determine, when looking at an infinitely long string of "random" numbers, what is a "message"?
And I suppose people are thinking it's going to be something in a current language... But I'm thinking some DNA-like thing instead.
Is there any practical application to this sort of thing, either having the number itself, or whatever method this guy used to arrive at it? Or is this a thumb gazing exercise?
Am glad I am too poor to afford Verizon service any more...
And that brings up a good point: Isn't this part and parcel to being that "connected"?
I do not own a "smart phone", because those types of functions are not things I need on a phone. And so what? You want to be tied to your computer 24/7? There's a price to pay.
Solution:
Slow down, smell the coffee, buy a net book or tablet and understand that the Internet will be there when you get home / to work / to the coffee shop with the free wi-fi.
Give me a baseball bat and 5 minutes with any cocksucker that steals my shit, and he'll wish he didn't. Sure you might have my laptop, but I just knocked out all of your teeth and broke your legs. Fair trade.
Enjoy your 5 year stint in prison.
Well, it's all good and well to pontificate. We'll see if Bradley Manning has the opportunity to get "compensation".
I am not a lawyer, and probably neither are you. I think it's a bit silly to be quoting popular isolated out of context bits and pieces of complex constitutional nuggets. The *reality* is that in the end, the government *will* prevail and if not, no one in particular will be punished, and folks like Manning will still spend many many years in prison for which there realliy is no adequate financial compensation.
Seriously, would YOU trade a few million (after the lawyers are done with it) for 20 or 30 years in prison? Even 10? If you think you would accept tha deal, you're no a sane person.
I don't see journalism anywhere around this case.
Especially since it involves Gizmodo...
"20-something douche bags full of themselves" is a more apt description...
Get off my lawn.
Be careful what you call "law". Unconstitutional legislation or action by the government is technically not "law", even though it looks and smells like one. Although it sometimes operates under the color of law until it eventually gets shut down.
Tell that to the guards while you cool your heels in the brig at Quantico.
At the time it had been once and it was assumed to be an accident. Now that it has happened again you have to wonder...
Indeed, at *most* twice.
People like to speculate, and the extreme secretiveness of Apple tends to let wild ideas like these grow.
But the facts are that there has never been any conclusive proof or even marginally believable solid evidence that either of these incidents are anything more than drunk yuppie Apple engineers in alcohol and cocaine induced stupors leaving their test phones places they shouldn't - bay area martini bars.
It's an extremely believable scenario verses the cloak-and-dagger pseudo-marketing being envisioned by the Apple Anti-Fanboys.
it's ok for the U.S. govt to *actually* have warrantless wiretapping, but it's not ok to have china *maybe* doing warrantless wiretapping?
Under US laws? Yes.
Sophos security researcher Graham Cluley questions how RSA has concluded that a country was responsible for the attack â" when RSA is unwilling to name who it suspects.
Why would they lay all their cards on the table? They don't need to prove to you and me that they know who did it, though the perps certainly now know that RSA knows they did it. I mean, that RSA is "unwilling" to tell Sophos does NOT mean that RSA has told no one.
And, RSA and Sophos have commercial interests and relationships in some of the same business markets, why would RSA tell them anything?